Molly (formerly Moira)

I wanted to give you the year update on Moira (now Molly). She’s been spoiled for a year straight basically. As a single girl with no one to care for but her, I dote on her a little bit. Having known what she went through, being her foster first, I feel like she deserves to sleep on the bed and get to go on long hikes 🙂 She’s the most docile boxer I’ve ever met. I can only get her to run about 20 yards on our Emma Long hikes, and never on a leash. I can count the number of times she’s barked on two hands in the last year, and she never jumps or plays rough. She’s amazing with my nieces – in fact, my youngest niece walked for the first time because she wanted to grab Molly’s nub tail so badly! She’s finally learned to play with toys, but mostly she just wants to be on your lap and be loved.

We got bad news for Molly this last December. A year into being healthy for the first time in her life, Molly was diagnosed with lymphoma. We were referred to a great oncologist from South Congress Vet and started chemo immediately. We’ve had our ups and downs, but today is the first day since October I can’t feel any of her nodes. My friends rallied and donated over $2,500 to her treatment! I guess it pays that I drag her everywhere I go, all of my friends and family have fallen in love her too!

Molly is such a joy and brings so much to my life. Thank you for the work that you do. I hope that I can foster again, but hopefully not because I’ve lost my precious Molly. I hope that 2013 is as successful a year for ABR as 2012.

I included a few pictures – the first is from our foster days. 🙂

Best wishes,

Julie

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Bobby Benson is a beautiful flashy fawn boy with a face you won’t forget. A perfect white T-bone over his muzzle and forehead highlight striking, alert amber eyes. ABR rescued him from Palm Valley so he’s finishing up his preventive medication for tick borne illnesses and he’s still getting his health back. Some of our Boxers from there are so poorly treated it takes a vet visit or 2 and some time for them to heal. Remarkably, he is heartworm negative. He is happy to have a 7 year old female Boxer and 17 year old female Dachsund as his new friends. He does not live with cats or kids so we don’t know how he relates to them.

Bobby is a calm, easy going guy who likes to amble around and be near his new foster family. He perks up for unfamiliar noises and the occasional squirrel. He is learning commands like sit, space, gentle and wait and he is getting pretty good at waiting his turn for pets and attention (something that’s usually hard for new rescues to do.) He does well on leash with his Boxer sister.

He’s not a fan of his crate, but he goes on in and settles down so long as someone is home. This 5 year old does not like it when his new family leaves; can’t blame him now he finally has one. Bobby Benson has had a pretty rough ride so far just getting to a safe, warm loving family. He has a leg or two left in his journey before he’ll be ready for the transition to a forever family. We’ll do our best to let you know how he’s doing and how close he is to joining your family.

Be sure to submit an adoption application at to meet this adorable boxer boy and make him part of your family.http://austinboxerrescue.com/adoption-application/ ... See MoreSee Less

Our boxers would like to thank all of our donors and bidders that participated in our online auction. We made approximately $11,500 to help with the purchase of our new kennel!! We couldn’t be happier! Although there were so many volunteers that helped make the auction possible there are just a few that need mentioning. Nikki Valencia worked every single day for three months on this. She was actually the leader on every aspect of the auction. Her cool head kept me calm and I can’t thank her enough. Thanks to Rhonda Mates and Fair Woods. Carol Eskew jumped in with both feet, as usual, and Greg and Evie Walberg went above and beyond in donations and support for ABR. We hope everyone will take a short road trip to visit the kennel the first of the year. Thank you... ... See MoreSee Less